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2025

A Day to Honor Emanuel Derman at his Retirement from Columbia original ↗

14 Dec 2025

The GS Quantitative Strategies Papers original ↗

11 Dec 2025

Charcoal Drawing original ↗

20 Nov 2025

Excerpt from Chapter 25 of Brief Hours and Weeks: The Red and the Black original ↗

4 Mar 2025

J M Coetzee on my new book, Brief Hours and Weeks original ↗

6 Feb 2025

A Short Excerpt From Chapter 9 of “Brief Hours and Weeks”original ↗

6 Feb 2025

2024

Summertime: An Excerpt from “Brief Hours and Weeks”original ↗

15 Dec 2024

Valuing Contracts with Payoffs Based on Realized Volatility original ↗

6 Feb 2024

Review of “My Life as a Quant” and “The Quants” by Wight Martindale original ↗

18 Jan 2024

Self Portrait original ↗

6 Jan 2024

2023

Ageism original ↗

14 Dec 2023

Model original ↗

22 Jul 2023

2021

Callicoon Room With A View original ↗

6 Nov 2021

MIsbehavioral Psychology original ↗

27 May 2021

Storm King 1 original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Sunday Morning in the Pandemic original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Storm King 2 original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Callicoon original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Central Park Flowers original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Central Park original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Self Portrait with Sinus Infection and AirPods (After Munch)original ↗

10 Mar 2021

Summary of Black Scholes Derivations original ↗

6 Mar 2021

Why Is This Interesting? The Programming Edition original ↗

5 Mar 2021

Marcel Carné original ↗

15 Feb 2021

2020

Maxwell’s Equations original ↗

7 Dec 2020

Why Is This Interesting: The Organic Olympics Edition original ↗

14 Jul 2020

Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition original ↗

13 Jun 2020

The Boy’s Guide to Pricing and Hedging original ↗

24 May 2020

Why Is This Interesting: The Japan Edition original ↗

24 May 2020

Why Is This Interesting: The Volatility Edition original ↗

24 May 2020

Why Is This Interesting: E Pluribus Unum — The Fracturing of Time and Space in Art original ↗

21 May 2020

Why Is This Interesting – Being Foreign original ↗

8 May 2020

Can One Hedge the Tail Risk of a Fund of Funds (2011)original ↗

19 Apr 2020

Soft Power original ↗

11 Feb 2020

2019

The Song of Mandelay original ↗

16 Dec 2019

Happy End original ↗

16 Dec 2019

Physical vs Social Interventions original ↗

17 Jul 2019

Psychological and Physical Time and Space original ↗

21 Jun 2019

Why Financial Heists Are Getting Bigger original ↗

20 May 2019

The Phenomenology of Pleasure and Pain original ↗

14 Feb 2019

The Limitations of Machine Learning in Finding the Laws of Nature original ↗

31 Jan 2019

2018

Adequate Explanations original ↗

5 Mar 2018

2017

Intuition 2 original ↗

18 Apr 2017

Lecture at Institute of Physics original ↗

2 Apr 2017

2016

Old Blog Post About Emigres from Totalitarian Countries original ↗

27 Nov 2016

A Stylized History of Quantitative Finance original ↗

15 Nov 2016

Interview on Barry Ritholz’s Masters in Business on Bloomberg Radio original ↗

28 Feb 2016

2015

A Scientific Approach to the Foundations of Finance original ↗

28 Aug 2015

Smoking (Part of Involuntary Affinities, Elective Aversions)original ↗

3 Apr 2015

Interview with New Scientist original ↗

21 Mar 2015

My Review of ?The Age of Cryptocurrency?original ↗

21 Mar 2015

Fifty Shades of Blue original ↗

21 Feb 2015

2014

Let X be the Unknown: The Miracle of Algebra original ↗

23 Dec 2014

Marriage Times Three original ↗

22 Oct 2014

The Guardian Panel on the Piketty Phenomenon original ↗

23 Sept 2014

A Map of Spinoza’s Passions original ↗

14 Jul 2014

Great Rhymes original ↗

10 Jun 2014

Meetings with Remarkable Women original ↗

7 Jun 2014

In the Beginthing original ↗

25 May 2014

Self-consciousness is a Property of a System, a Relationship, not a Person original ↗

20 Apr 2014

Speech at Commencement 2014 to Berkeley MSE Grads original ↗

19 Apr 2014

2013

Just a New York Conversation – In New York You are What You Do –From Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Column original ↗

31 Dec 2013

On Mandela: Leading From The Front — From Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Column original ↗

9 Dec 2013

The Crying of Lot 49: A Calculated Withdrawal from The Life of the Republic original ↗

28 Oct 2013

Norman Mailer on Ambition original ↗

23 Oct 2013

The Necrophiliac-Haters’ Guide to Building Arbitrage-Free Models*original ↗

5 Oct 2013

A Lesson in Wordless Pedagogy original ↗

20 Sept 2013

Charles Darwin on Data and Theory original ↗

16 Sept 2013

A Great Definition of Irony original ↗

15 Sept 2013

Announcement by Risk Magazine Top 50 Hall of Fame original ↗

6 Sept 2013

Goldman?s Head Quant Derman to Retire (Risk Magazine, 22 May 2002)original ↗

6 Sept 2013

Goldman Top Quant to Leave Wall Street (Derivatives Week, 2002)original ↗

6 Sept 2013

Portrait of a Rocket Scientist (Global Finance, 1996)original ↗

6 Sept 2013

The World According to Emanuel Derman – Interview in “Derivatives Strategy”original ↗

6 Sept 2013

The Worlds of Yesterday original ↗

6 Sept 2013

Quants?The Alchemists of Wall Street original ↗

28 Aug 2013

Moon over Queens, Mac over Manhattan original ↗

25 Aug 2013

Models Behaving Badly: A Lecture original ↗

25 Aug 2013

The Young Person’s Guide to Pricing and Hedging original ↗

10 Jun 2013

2012

Quantos: Understanding Guaranteed Exchange Rate Contracts original ↗

26 Nov 2012

More from Prost, a fictional work in progress original ↗

25 Sept 2012

An eagerness to impart unnecessary information: Column in the FAZ original ↗

14 Sept 2012

A Fact That Needs No Underlying Theory: A Repeated Joke Isn’t Funny original ↗

11 Sept 2012

Apologia Pro Sua Vita original ↗

8 Sept 2012

Introduction by Frank Schirrmacher to my Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Columns original ↗

4 Sept 2012

My German column in the FAZ original ↗

2 Sept 2012

An excerpt from Prost, a work in progress original ↗

13 Jul 2012

The Powerful League of Missing Persons original ↗

3 Jul 2012

The End original ↗

16 Apr 2012

My blind date with Rina Kolick original ↗

23 Mar 2012

Memoirs of an AntiSemite: Anti-Semites in the Anti-Melting Pot original ↗

9 Mar 2012

On Reading Merleau-Ponty original ↗

1 Mar 2012

Interview with Bloomberg?s Jim Pressley original ↗

19 Feb 2012

Aggression vs triumphalism original ↗

8 Feb 2012

Spinoza vs Schopenhauer on Love original ↗

3 Feb 2012

Schrödinger Ethics: To me you’re a wave, but to myself I’m sometimes a particle original ↗

4 Jan 2012

2011

Entranced by causality original ↗

28 Dec 2011

Hayek on the Difference between the Foundations of Physics and Economics original ↗

14 Dec 2011

Physics Envy: Burton Malkiel’s review of Models. Behaving. Badly original ↗

14 Dec 2011

People Who Always Go Meta original ↗

12 Dec 2011